Nashville Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin has just released a new recording of Pictures at an Exhibition with each movement transcribed for orchestra by a different arranger.
Some of the arrangers, like Vladimir Askhenazy and Leopold Stokowski are well known, others are not.
But all have been moved by Mussorgsky’s music, and all have created brilliant arrangements.
William Perry, William Schuman and Virgil Thomson share several important traits.
They are all 20th American composers (though Perry is stil alive, which makes him a 21st century composer), and all have written works for solo cello and orchestra.
This podcast introduces threse three beautiful but still unknown works.
An introduction to a new recording of Rachmaninoff’s Vespers, one of his finest choral pieces.
Rachmaninoff composed this music in 1915, on the eve of the Russian Revolution, and political events that would lead to a decades-long ban on playing any kind of religious music in concert. This music was finally heard again in churches in the 1960’s and in concert halls in the 1970’s.
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Nashville Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin has just released a new recording of Pictures at an Exhibition with each movement transcribed for orchestra by a different arranger.
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